Directory of Eco-villages in Europe - Kennedy Bibliothek

Sweden
Jonkoping
existing
eco-village
Smeden
of the houses are large in-glassed porches - good buffers between inside
and the small gardens outside - with clay floor tiles to store the
heat from the sun. The backs of the houses have storage rooms attached
to the facade and only one large window. The red wooden houses are
well insulated, have few walls without shelter and are build with sound
materials. The heating system consists of under-floor hot water pipes
heated from solar collectors, and an electric heater in the accumulating
water tank. Some apartments have as compliment a tile stove with connection
to the tank.
Each household has a garden allotment of 200 m 2 to grow vegetables.
Organic household waste is composted and used as fertiliser.
Smeden has its own water supply - a deeply drilled well. The water is
treated in an air filter to get rid of iron and make it less hard. The village
also has its own waste water treatment plant for the grey water and
flush- water from the toilets. The toilets used in Smeden are water flushed
and urine-separating. Each apartment has worm compost in a small
basement room, where the faeces and paper from the toilets are composted
after the flush- water is separated. The composted material is
dug down in the vegetable gardens to fertilise rhubarbs and berry
bushes, etc.
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